From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Mar 23 02:29:48 1999
Subject: toascii/abs
From: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>
To: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:29:04 +0100

Hi,

I have a problem with abs(a), if a is a string under octave.
In matlab that returns the ascii-values of the elements of a.

In octave I have a feature 'toascii'.
Unfortunately I cannot edit the 'abs' function because it is a builtin.

It would be nice if 'abs(a') would return what 'toascii(a)' returns
if 'a' is a string/stringmatrix.



bye daniel